Thanks BenLurkin.
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Posted on 02/19/2018 8:57:01 PM PST by BenLurkin
“In truth, the GRS has been shrinking for a long time,” Glenn Orton of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told Business Insider. The storm was once as large as four times the diameter of Earth, but more recent observations have shown that it’s rapidly losing steam. “Now it’s something like 13 degrees wide in longitude and only 1.3 times the size of the Earth,” Orton says. “Nothing lasts forever.”
Late last year, Juno revealed some surprising information about the huge storm, including how deep into the planet it goes. The data showed that the storm is up to 100 times deeper than Earth’s oceans, and the base of the storm is significantly hotter than the rapidly-moving winds we see in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. Researchers still don’t know many of the specifics of what drives the storm, but it’s obvious that it’s beginning to breath its dying gasps. Within the next decade or two, the storm is likely to die out completely.
Juno makes its observations during what are known as “science passes,” which is just a fancy way of saying that all of its instruments are up and running as it cruises around the planet.
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Nah, it’s Saturn (and the other gas giants) that are cold. Jupiter is insanely hot and horrifyingly radioactive, as it came the closest of any of the planets to becoming a star. It’s still radiating heat from its accretion.
After Jennifer Lawrence fixes the Democracy, she can fix Jupiter.
Wouldn't the term be 'Jovian Warming'?
Jennifer Lawrence should write a treatise on the Gaping Brown Eye that she put up on the Cloud and thus released to the world.
That would be jovial, eh?
It’s going to take trillions in new taxes to fix the spot.
Neptune’s Mysterious Storm is Dying, Possibly Smells Like Rotten Eggs
www.popularmechanics.com | Feb 15, 2018 | By David Grossman
Posted on 02/15/2018 2:32:31 PM PST by Red Badger
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